Lecturer in Child Health Nursing (Education)

Background

I registered as a children's nurse in 2002 after graduating from Salford University. My first post was working in a regional children’s intensive care unit in Manchester where I progressed to the role of junior sister, gaining specialist skills in the care and retrieval of critically ill children. 

In 2008 I moved to the South West of England and secured a post which was split between a children's high dependency unit caring for critically ill children and a children's community nursing team caring for children with complex health needs. 
Following this, in 2011, I moved into a practice educator role within a children's hospice providing care to children and young people requiring palliative and end of life care as well as providing education to members of the care team. Alongside this role, I also began to work as an associate lecturer within the University of Plymouth. 

In 2015 I joined the University of Plymouth as a lecturer in Child Health Nursing where I have since taken on the role of Deputy Programme Lead for the BSc (Hons) nursing (Child Health) programme and programme lead for the MSc in Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Programme. 

Paediatric palliative and end of life care

Paediatric critical and high dependency care

Assessment and management of pain in children and young people

Social and emotional health and resilience

Spiritual care of children and young people

Legal and ethical decision making

Evidence informed decision making

I also supervise masters students through their dissertation projects

Nursing and Midwifery Council

Royal College of Nursing

General Hypnotherapy Register

External Examiner University of Nottingham

International Editorial Board for Journal of Child Health Care

Peer reviewer for Nursing Children and Young People Journal 

Association of British Paediatric Nurses communications working group

Devon, Plymouth and Torbay Education Alliance - SEMH working group

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly paediatric palliative care steering group

Together for Short Lives Joint Research Group